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| Plot summary |
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In a modern retelling of Tod Browning's "Freaks" (1932),
"Freakshow" tells the story of a group of criminals who chose
to hide out by working security at a traveling circus. At first,
they plot with an insider to steal the ticket sales, but the wily
Lucy has bigger plans. She convinces the gang to let her seduce
and marry the aging circus owner, Lon, in order to secure the entire
circus fortune after he "suffers an accident". "People die all the
time," Lucy says. The freaks are on to their scheme, however, and
when the youngest of them is caught by the ruthless gang, they show
no mercy to ensure her silence. When the circus folk find the child's remains, they swear vengeance, and no one is safe from their
fury--least of all, the wily Lucy